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Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Club América Manager Santiago Solari; Chris Wittyngham on Another US Olympic Qualifying Debacle

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Grant has a revealing interview with Santiago Solari (at 35:14), the manager of Mexico's Club América and formerly of Real Madrid. Solari discusses why his hometown of Rosario, Argentina, has produced so many great soccer minds and players; why he attended college at Stockton University in New Jersey; playing all 90 minutes for Real Madrid in its 2002 Champions League final victory; why he moved into coaching; his time managing Real Madrid in 2018-19 and why he decided to take the América job. Before that, Grant and Chris Wittyngham break down the U.S. men's third straight failure to qualify for the Olympics after Sunday's 2-1 loss to Honduras. There's plenty to talk about! This episode of Fútbol with Grant Wahl is brought to you by Fanatiz. Frustrated that you can't get games from Spain's La Liga on your cable or satellite system? Sign up to stream Fanatiz. On Fanatiz, you can watch all the action in La Liga and other international leagues and tournaments live and on-demand from your mobile phone, tablet or directly on your TV with the Fanatiz app. Fanatiz features channels you know, like BeIN Sports in English and Spanish, GolTV and many more. And it costs only $7.99 a month. If you’d like to try Fanatiz for yourself, you can get a free week-long trial by going to fntz.co/Grant-FZ. Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqIhXWUw0H4 Get full access to Fútbol with Grant Wahl at grantwahl.substack.com/subscribe

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0:00.0

Hey there. Welcome to Football with Grant Wall. Thanks so much for joining me. Today's interview guest

0:13.2

is Santiago Solari, who currently manages Mexico's Club America. Before that, he was the manager

0:20.3

of Rayal Madrid. We've had some great guests lately, including Chris Richards, Chris Jones,

0:26.8

and Sarah Spain. I also encourage you to check out my podcast series, American Prodigy,

0:32.8

The Freddy Adieu Story, all eight episodes are out and you can binge all of them to your

0:38.4

heart's content. We'll have Santiago Solari on soon, but we're going to start by venting and

0:47.1

hopefully talking straight talk about the U.S. failing to qualify for the Olympic men's tournament.

0:54.1

Once again, three straight times losing two to one on Sunday night, two Honduras and the winner

1:01.7

take all deciding qualifier. Chris winning him is here. He's the radio voice of Inter Miami and the

1:09.2

co-host of the Chelsea Mike podcast. Chris, thanks for joining me. How are you, my man? Only

1:16.8

10 minutes ago, the U.S. had another Olympic qualifying debacle. We both started our Zoom call with

1:23.3

Buh! And that's just my general state of mood at the moment. I did pour myself a nice drink here.

1:31.7

So it's still fresh. This game only ended about 20 minutes ago here on Sunday night. And

1:40.4

you know, like I'm following Twitter, I'm following the game. And I realized that men's Olympic

1:49.7

soccer is not the world cup. It's an under 23 tournament. It allows three over-aged players per team.

1:58.3

That said, I have always stated before. And now that for the U.S., the men's Olympic soccer tournament

2:07.6

is more important than it is for European countries, especially. I think South American countries take

2:14.3

actually fairly seriously. Central America definitely does. Africa does more.

2:21.6

So I'm seeing some excuses in the Twitter timeline. I'm seeing some people saying,

2:27.4

ah, not that big a deal. You know, the U.S. has a bunch of under 23 players who weren't involved

2:32.8

in this qualifying tournament who are with the U.S. men's senior team. Didn't get released by

2:37.6

their European clubs because they don't have to be for Olympic qualifying. And right now, I

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